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- August 22, 2024
- 2:00 pm
- Israel
Large-scale fires broke out in northern Israel due to shelling from Lebanon, the area of fires reached a record 189 thousand dunams. The main damage was in the Golan Heights nature reserves and the Galilee forests. More than half of the burned area is classified as nature reserves, which aggravates the ecological disaster.
Since the beginning of the year, the area of fires in the north has exceeded any year in the last six years. This is caused by Hezbollah rocket attacks from Lebanon. Israel's agricultural sector has been hit hard, with many farms completely burned. Restoring crops, pastures and orchards will take many years and require significant financial investment.
Israeli authorities are counting the damage and estimating that it will take many years for agriculture and nature to recover. Experts say that “there are farms that will take 6 years to recover,” describing the severe blow inflicted by the fires in the north of the country.
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